Ki Young Ju, the CEO of Cryptoquant, stated this weekend that bitcoin’s bull cycle has concluded, citing a growing divergence between realized cap and market cap as evidence of a bear market. Cryptoquant CEO and Data Suggests Bitcoin’s Bull Cycle Concludes Realized cap, an onchain metric tracking the average cost basis of BTC holdings, reflects […] Original
Month: April 2025
Conor McGregor’s token creators to refund bidders after failed launch
Investors who bid on the REAL (REAL) token promoted by former UFC champion Conor McGregor will receive a full refund after the project failed to raise above its $1 million minimum requirement. “We need to be real. We didn’t hit our minimum raise,” the developers of the Real (REAL) token, Real World Gaming said in an April 6 X post, adding that “All bids will be refunded in full.” “This is not the end,” RWG said. The team only managed to raise $392,315 in USDC (USDC) over a 28-hour presale…
MyCryptoParadise Crypto Signals Team Called the $19K Bottom and $109K Top – Here’s Their Next Target
This content is provided by a sponsor. PRESS RELEASE. In a space flooded with thousands of crypto signals groups, finding one that actually gets it right — not once, but twice — feels almost mythical. Yet that’s exactly what the little-known team behind MyCryptoParadise has done. In February 2023, in their Telegram Free Alerts channel, […] Source CryptoX Portal
Latam Insights: Largest Latam Bank Mulls Stablecoin, Brazil Bans Retirement Funds From Investing in Crypto
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Itau reveals it is considering launching its own stablecoin, Brazil bans retirement funds from investing in crypto, and also champions local currency payments as a BRICS member. Largest Bank in […] Source CryptoX Portal
Jameson Lopp sounds alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks
Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin (BTC) custody company Casa, sounded the alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks, a social engineering scam that uses similar addresses from a victim’s transaction history to fool them into sending funds to the malicious address. According to Lopp’s Feb 6 article, the threat actors generate BTC addresses that match the first and last digits of addresses from the victim’s transaction history. Lopp analyzed the Bitcoin blockchain history for this type of attack and found: “The first such transactions did not appear until…
Bitcoin Price (BTC) Falls to $79K, While Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL) Also Tumble
“Decoupling” and “safe haven” began to be used late last week as bitcoin (BTC) held its own despite the continuing tumble in stock markets in response to President Trump’s sweeping tariffs against U.S. trading partners. Bitcoin bulls, though, may have spoken too soon. With stock trading closed for the weekend, fearful investors are perhaps turning to the 24/7 crypto markets to place bearish bets. In late Sunday afternoon action, bitcoin is trading just above $79,000 down 5% from 24 hours ago. Other majors are faring far worse, among them ether…
Bitcoin Struggles Below $80K as Weekend Sell-Off Wipes Out $160B in Value
While bitcoin maintained its footing on Friday, hovering above the $84,000 threshold, the digital currency descended below the $80,000 mark by Sunday, erasing $4,600 in value over the course of the weekend. Bitcoin’s Sunday Decline Triggers Deep Losses Across Digital Assets By Sunday evening, just before 5 p.m. ET, bitcoin ( BTC) was changing hands […] Original
Bitcoin falls below $80K — Will PI, OKB, GT and ATOM outperform BTC and altcoins?
Last week, Bitcoin (BTC) began showing early signs of decoupling from the US stock markets. Bitcoin was relatively flat over the week, while the S&P 500 plunged by 9%. The sell-off was triggered following US President Donald Trump’s April 2 global tariff announcement, which escalated further on April 4 as China retaliated with new tariffs on US goods. Even gold was not spared and was down 1.9% for the week. Alpine Fox founder Mike Alfred highlighted in a post on X that a gold bull market is bullish for Bitcoin.…
BTC Slips to $78.6K in Major Sunday Drop
By 3 p.m. ET on April 6, 2025, bitcoin ( BTC) had dipped further to $78,639, deepening its retreat from recent peaks and indicating a market still gripped by caution. This added pullback builds on the morning’s downturn, hinting at dwindling momentum as Wall Street prepares to reopen Monday. While bitcoin’s trading volume has seen […] Source CryptoX Portal
Stablecoins are the best way to ensure US dollar dominance — Web3 CEO
Stablecoins are the single best tool for the United States government to maintain the US dollar’s hegemony in global financial markets, according to LayerZero Labs CEO and founder Bryan Pellegrino. In an interview with Cointelegraph, the CEO of LayerZero Labs, which created the LayerZero interoperability protocol recently chosen by Wyoming to be the distribution partner for the Wyoming stablecoin, said that the cross-border accessibility of dollar-pegged tokens makes them an obvious choice to drive US dollar demand. Pellegrino added: “Stablecoins for the US dollar are the single best tool —…